Core Curriculum

Self-Awareness

Essential to growth on and off the court
Recognizing what (or who) you need to grow, survive, or thrive. Survival to one person might be thriving for someone else - important to recognize the harm that comparison can do to our own growth.
Awareness of self is success because you cannot improve or change what you are unwilling to accept.
Self-awareness is a never-ending process that depends on your ability to reassess your thoughts, feelings, motives, and behaviors in given situations.
you can maintain it by constantly assessing your actions to ensure alignment with intended objectives and soliciting feedback from others
Be intentional about who you seek feedback from (how are they aligning with your goals and values related to a given experience
You can lose it by ignoring input from others and/or by not being realistic or present. If we are not present, how can we be aware of thoughts, feelings, and circumstances

Personal responsibility is the ownership and execution of intentional choices that reflect identified team and individual values, resulting in the development of character, trust, and influence. Personal responsibility is essential in optimizing one's ability to achieve their highest potential.
It is important to identify your values and choose where your energy and time will be spent.
VALUES ---> CHOICES/BEHAVIOR----> CHARACTER = personal responsibility
Public (training, contributions to the team, role responsibility..) verse personal domain (taking care of yourself, taking care of school, family, etc..);

Confidence can be a personality trait and it can also come from knowledge on the subject-- our objective is to build up an equal balance of both
Building confidence gives us access to more opportunities for success. When we know what we can trust about our skill set, we can work to take the next steps)
Build a framework; what do you trust when you don’t trust yourself.
Greater motivation: our confidence gives us momentum to draw from when we’re facing new challenges and opportunities
More resilience: setbacks are inevitable but we can rely on our confidence to be certain we can overcome whatever we’re facing. We can use our current skill set to lean on when trying a new task).
Improved relationships: less worried about ourselves and able to be more present, empathetic to the people around us
Stronger sense of self: roots us in who we are, able to accept weaknesses and celebrate our strengths

Acknowledgement of what you are naturally gifted with and that those qualities can be developed/refined skills. Strengths are not fixed, they can be enhanced or trained over time.
Impactful and effective to acknowledge the things we are good at in order to continue to get better at those strengths and to develop our growth edges. This is emotionally beneficial to maintaining progress towards your goals
Clarity of what you are bringing to the table (your strengths) is important to so you can take the step towards focusing on other aspects of yourself or skills (developing growth edges that can compliment the strengths you possess) - knowing our strengths can be foundational to giving ourselves permission to work on the things that are more difficult, unnatural, or emotionally challenging
Leaning into strengths under pressure - knowing you strength gives you access to capitalizing on it and is likely what you can or will fall back on (comfort zone)
Optimizing performance happens when we match strengths/abilities with demand
Losing strengths would be to focus only on weakness, thus lacking a foundation of trust and confidence in your abilities.

The simple act of transferring information from one place, person, or group to another. Every communication needs a sender, a message, and a recipient (RECEIVER).
COMMUNICATION INVOLVES BODY LANGUAGE, TONE, AND MESSAGE. WHEN BODY LANGUAGE AND TONE ARE NOT ALIGNED WITH MESSAGE, THE BODY LANGUAGE AND TONE PREVAIL REGARDLESS OF INTENTION.
These 5 skills are absolutely necessary for successful communication in the workplace or private life:

Sometimes being an effective communicator can be very challenging and bring people far out of their comfort zone.
Different environments and audiences required different forms of communication.
We do not learn information without someone communicating it to us. We cannot teach or provide information without being able to communicate it. We cannot create and maintain relationships, personal or professional, without being able to effectively communicate.
We use communication to share information, comment, ask questions, express wants and needs, develop social relationships, social etiquette, etc. Communication is much more than wants and needs.
Good communication is rooted in good listening